THESAURO-PHULAKION[Greek]: or, A treasury of divine raptures Consisting of Serious Observations, Pious Ejaculations, Select Epigrams. Alphabetically rank'd and fil'd by a Private Chaplain to the Illustrious and Renowned Lady Urania The Divine and Heavenly Muse. The first part [by Nicholas Billingsley] |
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14. On Baptism.
We to the heav'nly Can'an cannot pass,Unless we first wade through the sea of glass;
Regeneration's Lavour, is that sea,
Wherein we all must wash, and cleansed be:
A man God's Kingdom never can inherit,
That is not born of Water and the Spirit:
There's no approaching to Gods gracious throne
Unwash'd; the glassie sea must be sail'd on.
God's word's our compass, but the spirit driven
The Pinnace of our souls, arrives at Heaven:
In Baptism, we our selves engaged have
To Christ, took our press-money; there, we gave
Our names up to the Captain General
Of our Salvation, to obey his call:
There did we vow, and solemnly protest,
Still to be true to his sweet interest;
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Till death, and that in a couragious manner.
Now if when call'd to suffer for his name.
We should flinch back, O were it not a shame?
Nay, Christ against us may our Baptism bring
As an Indictment for this very thing:
How shall we look on Christ another day,
Who from our colours falsly fall away?
O where alights, the curse, flying roul,
But in the dwelling of the perjur'd soul,
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